Death is close enough at hand so we do not need to be afraid of life.

I devote myself to what I love the most, and for this very reason I hesitate to designate it with lofty words: I do not want to risk believing that it is a sublime compulsion, a law, which I obey: I love what I love the most too much to wish to appear to it as one compelled.

The value of a thing sometimes lies not in what one attains with it, but in what one pays for it - what it costs us

Art is the proper task of life.

Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Freedom of Will-that is the expression for the complex state of delight of the person exercising volition, who commands and at the same time identifies himself with the executor of the order-who, as such, enjoys also the triumph over obstacles, but thinks within himself that it was really his own will that overcame them. In this way the person exercising volition adds the feelings of delight of his successful executive instruments, the useful underwills or under-souls-indeed, our body is but a social structure composed of many souls-to his feelings of delight as commander.